A Native American woman, or "Klootchman" in Chinook jargon, poses for her portrait at Matsura's studio. She wears a shawl over a polka-dot dress, and carries a beaded handbag. Her hair is in braids and shells adorn her ears. Chinook jargon was...

Matsura and an unidentified man stand atop the lower end tunnel of the Conconully Dam. Made of concrete in spots where the rock was too soft, the outlet tunnel diverted the river during the dam's construction. The tunnel lay below the east side of...

Matsura and two men rest on a bench outside a barn after eating a large dinner. All three men have grimaces on their faces and are holding their stomachs. The title given by Matsura for this postcard reads "After Big Dinner".

In January 1910, Matsura visited the Conconully jail to take photographs of the personal possessions of the infamous Frank Leroy. His arsenal included four guns, a bottle of nitroglycerine, fuse, wax, cotton batten and safe blower's wedges, for...

A man in a buggy drives down the road near Malott, Washington. Incorporated into a town by 1909, Malott lay approximately eight miles from Okanogan and approximately the same from Brewster. The title of this picture is "Looking up Okanogan Valley...

The Conconully Reservoir formed above the Conconully Dam. The Dam, a project of the U.S. Reclamation Service completed in 1910, utilized water from the Salmon River to irrigate over 10,000 acres of land in Okanogan County. The Okanogan Irrigation...

A picture of two men and a stage parked in front of the Bureau Hotel in Okanogan. The title of this postcard is "Finch's Limited". This might refer to the St. Paul, Minnesota stage line of Finch, Vansylek and McConnville. The picture, taken March...

In between the two trestles and flumes lies a pond formed in the interior part of the Conconully Dam. The pond holds the small rocks, silt, and dirt brought hydraulically to the site via the flumes. Water will slowly seep from the area, leaving...

Besides sluicing, another method of moving materials such as rock and dirt used in the construction of an earth or rock-fill dam involved the use of dump wagons and "Fresno" buckscrapers. This photograph shows a crew working for the U.S....

A Matsura postcard, containing a collage of the work done on Elgin Canyon Road, showed this same picture, with the title "Allender's Shovel Gang." The name could be in reference to either Oscar or Ernest Allender, citizens of Okanogan. All of the...

A view of the entire Conconully Dam project, as seen from the side of the soon-to-be reservoir. The reservoir will have five miles of shoreline by the completion of the dam. To the right of the photograph is the spillway, located on the west side...

Seven unidentified men and women sit in an open air automobile. One man and one women stand next to the car. Towards the front of the photograph there camping supplies. Title comes from writing on photograph saying ""Summer Sport in Okanogan River.

A scenic overview of the Okanogan Valley containing the Okanogan River and croplands. The title of the postcard is "Looking down Okanogan Valley from Shell Rock Point, Wash." 1908. Shell Rock Point lay directly north of town on the way to Omak,...

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